Now how much money was given to Acorn again? $6-8 billion if I remember correctly.
China, Russia, Venezuala, NoKo, Iran all still exist & are gunning for us.
I guess people forget what deterrent means.
tahDeetz
The F-22 is waste of resources on many levels.
It’s 6X as expensive as Russian/Chinese 4.5 Gen Fighters.
It requires 70 HOURS of maintenance for every 1 hour of flight. Russian/Chinese fighters require 10 hrs for 1 hour of flight.
SU-35s/J-11Bs are already coming off the production line with reduced RCS, AESA radars, and updated Infrared and Visual range missile targeting systems.
We simply cannot win the attrition game with such a platform. It would be a better allocation of resources to build effective delivery systems which would destroy enemy air bases and complement that effort with updating the entire fighter fleet to 4.5 Gen technology. And money left over really should be plowed into unmanned, autonomous fighter development.